Kenya’s ailing county health centres without drugs and ambulances

Residents of Meibeki in Uasin Gishu display donkeys they use as ambulances. The donkeys were donated by a well-wisher. They demonstrated over lack of drugs and medical equipment including ambulances. [PHOTO: KEVIN TUNOI]

After suffering for long, residents of Meibeki in Uasin Gishu recently staged protests over shortage of drugs and lack of ambulances in public health facilities in the county.

Armed with twigs, the residents said they are forced to use donkeys to ferry patients to health centres in the neighbouring Elgeyo Marakwet County because there is no ambulance.